Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

This new wall-coating trend veers on the side of subtlety, but will make your home look and feel more natural, particularly ...

Q:My husband and I just bought a house that has a "skip-trough" finish on the interior walls. We would like to make the walls smooth and then repaint them. One friend advised us to apply joint ...

In Part 3 of our 3-hour plastering series, we finish the job and reveal the final smooth wall! 🧱✨ Watch the troweling, ...

Q One room in my home has two layers of early '70s-era wallpaper on the walls. The first layer has proven fairly easy to remove with a chemical solution from a hardware store, but the second layer is ...

Dezeen Showroom: Clayworks has created a range of Smooth Finishes clay plasters that are made entirely from natural materials and offer seamless, earthy surface finishes. UK brand Clayworks developed ...

The decision about the exterior look of a house is often made at the design stage. A good finish creates an attractive appearance and helps moderate temperature changes and protect against moisture ...

Removing the plaster from a vintage house is a nasty job. It generates yards of debris and creates clouds of dust that go everywhere. We have some advice: don’t assume the plaster has to go. In fact, ...